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He Was Good With Rod and Reel

Updated Nov. 19, 2008 12:01 a.m. ET

Your daily front-page feature is always a delight, never more so than in these days. I especially like the article "Fans of the 31st President Find Hate for Hoover Greatly Depressing" (Nov. 4), which casts a more measured light on Herbert Hoover's career.

Your story, however, misses another humanizing point: Hoover was the most avid angler to ever live in the White House. Nothing, not even financial turmoil, stopped him from fishing, if only at ponds at the presidential retreat. He even wrote a book called...